“Down the dark dark staircase there was a dark dark cellar. And in the dark dark cellar…. Some skeletons lived.”
Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Treasure Island
“Yo ho ho and a bottle of Rum”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
Lewis Carroll
George’s Marvellous Medicine
“Never grow up… always down.”
Roald Dahl
The Tiger Who Came to Tea
“The tiger didn’t take just one sandwich. He took all the sandwiches on the plate and swallowed them with one big mouthful.”
Judith Kerr
Burglar Bill
“Every night he has stolen fish and chips and a cup of stolen tea for supper. Then he swings a big stolen sack over his shoulder and goes off to work, stealing things.”
Janet and Allan Ahlberg
Little Red Riding Hood
“Grandmother, what big teeth you have got!”
The Brothers Grimm/ Charles Perrault
The Gruffalo’s Child
“Aha! Oho! A trail in the snow!
Whose is this trail and where does it go?”
Julia Donaldson
James and the Giant Peach
“And then suddenly… But slowly… Majestically… Like some fabulous golden balloon….With all the seagulls straining at the strings above… The giant peach rose up dripping out of the water and began climbing towards the heavens.”
Roald Dahl
The Worst Witch and the Wishing Star
“… how time shoots past when you’re not looking forward to something, like going to the dentist, but takes forever if you’re waiting for something nice, like a birthday party.”
Jill Murphy
Baby in a Book 